Door-to-Door Maniac
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How could she extend the moments he had given her?
A gang of bank robbers terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.
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A middling late period noir featuring a surprisingly good Johnny Cash as the eponymous villain. For fans of bald directors and former Happy Days stars the annoying little kid is none other than Ron Howard himself.
The facade of suburban life is peeled back to highlight child neglect, adultery and boredom. Working as a deliberate attack on suburbia Door to Door Maniac is a violent film that must have shocked audiences at the time with its almost casual use of home invasion and rape, children in peril and a villain who seems to get almost a sexual pleasure out of murder.
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A visibly pill-addled Johnny Cash tortures a housewife for an hour or so, sometimes through song. If you need more than that, we're very different people.
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A middling late period noir featuring a surprisingly good Johnny Cash as the eponymous villain. For fans of bald directors and former Happy Days stars the annoying little kid is none other than Ron Howard himself.
The facade of suburban life is peeled back to highlight child neglect, adultery and boredom. Working as a deliberate attack on suburbia Door to Door Maniac is a violent film that must have shocked audiences at the time with its almost casual use of home invasion and rape, children in peril and a villain who seems to get almost a sexual pleasure out of murder.
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Johnny Cash. The Man in Black. Not bad. But not real good either.
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Psycho role for musician Johnny Cash in this early 60s crime pic, and if you dont know Cash, hes the one playing the guitar all the way through, apart from that hes a good watch as is film in general, a bank heist and a house seige, both work well its dated of course but still has stuff going for it.
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A mediocre (and often sexist) thriller whose main highlight is the performance by Johnny Cash. As the film's titular villain, Cash is pretty unhinged and threatening with his itchy trigger finger. Of course, he does pull out his guitar for some songs...
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A visibly pill-addled Johnny Cash tortures a housewife for an hour or so, sometimes through song. If you need more than that, we're very different people.
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Okay, so I just finished a pair of movies with Johnny Cash: a 1981 TV movie, The Pride of Jesse Hallum, and a 1961 feature, Five Minutes to Live. In Jesse Hallum, Cash plays an illiterate Kentucky widower who takes his kids to Cincinnati so his daughter can receive needed surgery and we see how hard it is for him to make it in the big city without being able to read. It felt like "hicksploitation" to me, based as much as it was on the fact that growing up in Appalachia was the reasoning for Jesse making it so far in life without being literate, but I'm pretty new to these exploitation genres. It's not a horror movie, but…
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A mostly unexciting little crime potboiler that is notable mostly for starring Johnny Cash as a trigger-happy thug (!) who poses as a door-to-door salesman and holds a banker’s wife hostage while his partner grabs the loot at the bank. It’s slackly paced and there’s not much story, but Cash isn’t bad as he plays his guitar and menaces the woman.